This website is under construction, but feel free to already explore. We plan to have a complete version with additional glaciers and different languages by end of January.
With current policy leading to a warming of 2.7°C, we are sadly saying goodbye to many glaciers in the Alps. However, every tenth of a degree reduced in warming can help preserve glacier ice worldwide and mitigate the impacts of climate change!
Below, you can search for your favorite glacier on the map or from the list to see what its future might look like.
List by Country
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Austria
- Pasterze, mostly gone by 2063
- Seekarlesferner, mostly gone by 2033
- Hintereisferner, mostly gone by 2048
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France
- Gebroulaz, mostly gone by 2062
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Italy
- Marmolada, mostly gone by 2034
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Switzerland
- Rhone, mostly gone by 2073
Of the approximately 3,900 glaciers in the Alps in Central Europe, only around 635 have an estimated volume above 0.01 km³ as of 2020, equivalent to water stored in 4,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
We call a glacier to be mostly gone at the point when less than 10% of the glacier's 2020 volume or less than 0.01 km³ is expected to remain. At that deglaciation year, the former glacier is no longer recognizable.
Under 2.7°C warming, more than 577 glaciers (91%) are estimated to deglaciate before 2100.
However, under 1.5°C warming, 103 fewer glaciers are estimated to deglaciate.
We call a glacier to be mostly gone at the point when less than 10% of the glacier's 2020 volume or less than 0.01 km³ is expected to remain. At that deglaciation year, the former glacier is no longer recognizable.
Under 2.7°C warming, more than 577 glaciers (91%) are estimated to deglaciate before 2100.
However, under 1.5°C warming, 103 fewer glaciers are estimated to deglaciate.
